Prayer – Master of the World, Merit Me to Be Like King David, Peace Be Upon Him, to Arise Every Night at Chatzos (Midnight)
1 – Master of the World, upon reaching the age of twelve, merit me to be included in the twelve tribes of Israel and to be included with every single Jew. From now until my Bar Mitzvah, may I merit every single day to be a flaming fire for You, and to pray with all my 248 limbs and 365 sinews, with all my vitality and all my being. May I no longer look at the lusts of this world, and may I know that this world is nothing at all. May I only pray to You every single day, reciting all three prayers word by word with a blazing flame of God. May I merit to fulfill the verse and pray upon it: "Set me as a seal upon Your heart, as a seal upon Your arm; for love is as strong as death, jealousy is as hard as the grave; its flashes are flashes of fire, a blazing flame of God." May I be entirely a flaming fire for You, day and night, and serve You out of immense desire and immense love. May the verse be fulfilled in me: "Only in your forefathers did Hashem delight to love them, and He chose their offspring after them, even you, above all peoples, as it is this day." Please, Merciful and Gracious One, merit me to be of the seed of Avraham, Yitzchak, and Yaakov, and to serve You all twenty-four hours a day without a moment's pause, until I merit to see at my Bar Mitzvah the three holy Tannaim: Rav Hamnuna Saba, Rav Yeiva Saba, and Rav Nehorai Saba.
1 – Master of the World, Omnipotent One from whom no purpose can be withheld, merit me... to the Name of Eheyeh Asher Eheyeh (I Will Be What I Will Be), now that I have merited to reach Eheyeh (21) years of age. May I merit what Rebbe Nachman writes in Torah 32, that in order to sweeten the 320 severe judgments—which is the gematria of Na'ar (youth)—one must draw down the five Alephs of the five Eheyehs in Binah (Understanding). These are Eheyeh in Keser (Crown), Eheyeh in ChaBaD (Wisdom, Understanding, Knowledge), Eheyeh in ChaGaT (Loving-kindness, Might, Beauty), Eheyeh in NeHY (Endurance, Splendor, Foundation), and Eheyeh in Malchus (Kingship). May I merit these five Eheyehs in perfection now that I have turned twenty-one years old—Eheyeh (21) years. These are the five Eheyehs that Hashem revealed to Moshe Rabbeinu in Parashas Shemos (3:12): "And He said, For I will be (Eheyeh) with you," (3:14): "I will be what I will be (Eheyeh asher Eheyeh)... Eheyeh has sent me to you," and (4:12) the final Eheyeh that Hashem revealed to Moshe Rabbeinu, which opens the mouth to pray and learn: "And now go, and I will be (Eheyeh) with your mouth, and I will instruct you what you shall speak." This is the explanation that Rebbe Nachman gives in Torah 38, that the kosher and good words a person utters from his mouth are the words of Hashem Himself, the Shechinah (Divine Presence) Herself. This is the secret of "Hashem, open my lips, and my mouth shall declare Your praise." May all my words from this day onward be literally the words of Hashem speaking through my mouth, by meriting now at age 21 (Eheyeh) the perfection of speech. This will come through knowing my true lowliness, and through this Hashem will always be with me, as it is written: "I dwell with the crushed." May all my words be solely the words of the holy Shechinah from now until eternity, by knowing my true lowliness.
1 – Master of the World, full of abundant mercy, please help me to study all the days of my life in Shuvu Banim, and may they never throw me out from there. For You know my pain and the essence of my immense confusion, and therefore I have come to ask You for a pure and clear intellect, so that I may immediately understand whatever I study. May my sins not hold me back from understanding everything with a clear and polished mind. Have pity on me, my Father in Heaven, and do not hide Your face from me. Ruler over all, the whole earth is filled with Your glory. Reveal to me the true leader of this generation, who will carry me as a nurse carries an infant, to bring us close to serving You in truth. Give me and all of Israel a true leader, and merit me with the light of holy intellect, with wisdom and understanding. May I merit to subdue the evil inclination within me, and merit an intellect that will go and illuminate for me more and more from moment to moment, until I merit the illumination of the wisdom of the holy soul. Grant my portion in Your Torah and in Your service day and night. Put understanding into my heart to understand and to elucidate, to listen, to learn, and to teach, to keep, to do, and to fulfill all the words of the study of Your Torah with love. Enlighten my eyes in Your Torah and attach my heart to Your commandments. Protect me, my offspring, and the offspring of my offspring, that we may always merit to study in Shuvu Banim, and that we may only be strengthened and ascend higher and higher, endlessly and boundlessly. May we merit to unify all the holy Sefiros (Divine emanations) in holiness and purity. Master of the World, full of mercy, have mercy on me, my offspring, and the offspring of my offspring until the end of all generations, for I have been left like a mast atop a mountain, with no helper or supporter, and no one to stand up for me. Rescue, rescue, and save, save me, my offspring, and the offspring of my offspring until the end of all generations from the treacherous waters that are flooding the entire world, growing stronger from day to day with greater force and greater might. There is nowhere to escape from them except to Noah's Ark, which today is "Shuvu Banim." Raise me upon the knees of the Torah—me, my offspring, and the offspring of my offspring until the end of all generations. May words of Torah never depart from our mouths forever and ever, for only in the merit of words of Torah do You sustain all the worlds, and only for their sake did You create all the worlds. Help and save me, my offspring, and the offspring of my offspring until the end of all generations, from now until eternity, for Your sake and for the honor of Your Torah. May I merit to have self-sacrifice for every single letter in prayer and in Your holy Torah, and to study out of true and supreme self-sacrifice, as it is written: "When a man dies in a tent." May I, my offspring, and the offspring of my offspring until the end of all generations merit to kill ourselves [figuratively, with total devotion] in the tent of Torah from now until eternity.
3 – Master of the World, Omnipotent One, merciful and gracious Father, "Who stretches out the heavens like a curtain" (Isaiah 40:22) [Responsa of the Rashba]. Merit me with a bride like Sarah, Rivkah, Rachel, and Leah. Please, the One Hashem, may she be proficient in all the treasures of the language, and only the One Hashem, and may she speak only words of comfort, and only the One Hashem, words of purity. May we always pray together and arise for Chatzos (midnight prayer) together. May we merit to pray like the Rambam at the Southern Wall and also the Western Wall, the One Hashem. May I merit to never again look at any strange woman, God forbid, nor any strange girl, God forbid. May I know that upon every strange woman rests Lilith and Igras bas Machalas with 18,000 trillion trillions of angels of destruction. May I merit to be a great, holy, and modest man. [Gematria calculations:] Kol (All) 50, HaKosel (The Wall) 455, Yachol (Omnipotent) 66, HaDromi (The Southern) 265, Abba (Father) 4, Echad (One) 1, HaNoteh (Who stretches) 75 = 721. KaDok (Like a curtain) 130, Adam (Man) 45, Shamayim (Heavens) 390, Gadol (Great) 113 = 721. Kadosh (Holy) 410, Echad (One) 1, VeTzanua (And modest) 222, Bekiah (Proficient) 118 + 1, BeChol (In all) 52 = 721. Michmanei (Treasures of) 130, HaSafah (The language) 390 = 721. Echad (One) 1, Divrei (Words of) 216, Nechamos (Comfort) 504 = 721. Echad (One) 1, Divrei (Words of) 216, Tzachos (Purity) 504 = 721.
1 – Master of the World, Omnipotent One from whom no purpose can be withheld, merit me with an abundance of parnassah (livelihood) just as Eliyahu HaNavi, remembered for good, promised: "The jar of flour shall not run out, and the jug of oil shall not lack." May all my neighbors [who oppose me] be nullified like the dust of the earth. May I merit a bride set like a gem among her companions. May I merit to see Hashem face to face, as it is written: "When shall I come and appear before God?" May all witchcraft be nullified from upon me, for You are God, our Guardian and Rescuer. May You hear all my prayers—Shacharis, Minchah, and Maariv. "Hear the cry of the children of my people." "Fortunate is the eye that saw all these." May I merit to be the veteran disciple of Rebbe Nachman of Breslov, and may the very essence of the soul of our holy and awesome Rebbe become impregnated within me. May I succeed in everything I do, as it is stated: "For Israel does valiantly." [Gematria calculations:] *Kad (Jar) 24, *Sha'ah (Hear) 375, HaKemach (The flour) 153, Shavas (The cry of) 776, Lo (Shall not) 31, Bnei (The children of) 62, Tichleh (Run out) 455, Ami (My people) 120, VeTzapachas (And the jug of) 584 = 1333. HaShemen (The oil) 395, *Ashrei (Fortunate is) 511, Lo (Shall not) 31, Ayin (The eye) 130, Chaser (Lack) 268, Ra'asah (That saw) 606, Kol (All) 50, *LeKallah (A bride) 85, Eleh (These) 36, Bein (Among) 62 = 1333. Re'oseha (Her companions) 691, *Etzem (The essence of) 200, Meshubetzah (Set like a gem) 443, Nishmas (The soul of) 790 = 624. Rabbeinu (Our Rebbe) 268, El (God) 31, HaKadosh (The holy) 415, Shomreinu (Our Guardian) 602, VeHaNora (And the awesome) 268, U'Matzileinu (And our Rescuer) 232, Ki (For) 30, Atah (You) 406, Oseh (Does) 381, Chayil (Valiantly) 48 = 1941.
1 – Master of the World, Omnipotent One from whom no purpose can be withheld, merit me with a bride like Sarah, Rivkah, Rachel, and Leah. Merit me and my bride to be like Yitzchak and Rivkah. All day long, may I only sing and play melodies with her in Your honor, and may we always live in song and praise, as it is written: "And Yitzchak brought her into the tent of Sarah his mother, and he took Rivkah, and she became his wife, and he loved her; and Yitzchak was comforted after his mother." Behold, she was like Sarah his mother, for he saw Sarah our mother in the tent. May I merit prayer like our holy and awesome Rebbe, and all day long may I be solely in song and praise, all the year 5767 and for all of life. [Gematria calculations:] Yitzchak 208, Rivkah 307 = 515. VaYevi'eha (And he brought her) 34, Le'Ishah (For a wife) 336, VaYe'ehaveha (And he loved her) 29, VaYinachem (And he was comforted) 114 + 2 = 513. Shirah (Song) 515. Zimrah (Praise) 252 = 762. Tashsaz (5767) = 762.
1 – Master of the World, Omnipotent One from whom no purpose can be withheld, merit me with a spacious and magnificent apartment in Jerusalem in the Third Wall (Choma Shlishit) neighborhood. May I merit to be a veteran disciple of the Rav [Rabbi Berland] and of Rebbe Nachman, son of Simcha, son of Feiga. Bless me and my bride, Sarah Penina bas Chaya Levana, with all the Seven Blessings (Sheva Brachos). May I merit to go to the Western Wall every single day, whether on a weekday or on Shabbos, an unbreakable rule, except for the days when I will be traveling to Uman. After the wedding, may I merit to go with Sarah Penina bas Chaya Levana every day to the Western Wall and pray Vatikin (sunrise prayer) together with her. [Gematria calculations:] *Talmid (Disciple) 584, Vatik (Veteran) 516 = 1000. *Sheva (Seven) 772, Brachos (Blessings) 628 = 1000.
1 – Master of the World, Omnipotent One from whom no purpose can be withheld, merit me with true humility and lowliness. May I merit to believe with perfect faith that I am the worst creation in this generation and in all generations. May I believe with perfect faith that all my friends, my companions, my teachers, all of Israel, and the entire world—everyone is infinitely better than me. I am not even worth the dust on the sole of the shoe of any Jew, nor of any person in the world. May I merit the level of Moshe Rabbeinu, the Faithful Shepherd: "And the man Moshe was very humble, more than any person on the face of the earth." Please, Merciful and Gracious One, from whom nothing is hidden, act according to the greatness of Your wonders and the essence of Your infinite loving-kindness, so that I may know faithfully that You rule over all and by Your will everything is done. Because of my terrible arrogance, I banish the Shechinah (Divine Presence) from the face of the earth, as it is written: "Whoever is arrogant, I and he cannot dwell in the same abode." Please, Merciful and Gracious One, forgive my iniquity, for it is great. May I merit to fulfill the verse stated by King Solomon, peace be upon him: "For I am more boorish than any man, and I do not have the understanding of a man." May I know that I have no knowledge or understanding, and may I begin to believe with perfect faith in the true Sages. May I believe in the infinite power of our holy Rebbe to elevate me, the lowest of the low and the worst of the worst, to the highest of heights, to the very level of our holy Rebbe, just as the Rebbe promised: "Exactly like me." This will be by withstanding all the tests of the terrible blemishes of the Covenant. From this day onward, may I merit true lowliness, to truly know that I have not yet even begun to serve Hashem at all. May no arrogance or thought of arrogance ever enter my mind, as it is written: "Every haughty heart is an abomination to Hashem"—whether in Torah, in prayer, or in mitzvos. May I know that I am not worthy of anything in the world, and that everything is a free gift of unearned grace, solely through Your infinite loving-kindness, for You sustain and provide in Your goodness for both the righteous and the wicked. Your loving-kindness reaches even a wicked person like me, who rebels intentionally every day and intentionally transgresses all Your commandments. Even so, Your immense loving-kindness does not cease from me even for a single second. From this day onward, may I truly know that I am indeed the absolute worst. And the more I know that I am the worst, the more I will merit to see the sheer power of Your loving-kindness that reaches even me. Through this, I will return in complete teshuvah (repentance) out of love, and I will merit to love You with all my heart and soul. May I merit to truly see that You have infinite mercy, without any calculation, even upon the wicked, nations, and murderers—and I am infinitely worse than all of them, because they do not recognize Your greatness and Your existence, whereas I know that You live and endure, and that You supervise me and the entire creation with Divine Providence every moment and second. All vitality comes solely from You, yet in the malice of my heart, I took the vitality You bestow upon me and used it to rebel against You, God forbid. But You know that everything I have done until now is because I have not yet reached the level of a human being, and in truth, I have not yet even begun to live at all. I pray to You, Merciful and Gracious One, that from now on You will be my help, so that I will never again blemish in any way whatsoever, until I merit to reach the very level of our holy Rebbe.
2 – Master of the World, Omnipotent One from whom no purpose can be withheld, merit me to pour out oceans of tears before You. May I merit to draw down the breath of life from the Tree of Life, from the river that flows out of Eden to water the garden, to my sons and daughters. May I merit to reach the level of the righteous women in Egypt who would give birth under the apple tree, fulfilling the verse: "He made him suck honey from a rock, and oil from a flinty stone." May the angels who sustained the Children of Israel in Egypt accompany and sustain my sons and daughters, and the children of all of Israel, throughout their entire hundred and twenty years. May they merit to complete their mission during their entire hundred and twenty years, and to draw down the breath of life to all the Children of Israel, both those being born and those already living, that they may prolong the days of their lives in goodness and pleasantness. May they have full lives of Torah, prayer, and good deeds, without wasting even a brief moment. May we merit to reach the immense levels of Miriam and Yocheved, who merited to reach the level of the Chotma D'Atika Kadisha (the Nose of the Holy Ancient One, a Kabbalistic concept representing the source of ultimate mercy and life), as it is stated: "And they kept the children alive." They merited to draw down to all the Children of Israel in Egypt, and to all the Jewish people in all generations, the breath of life of the Resurrection of the Dead. This is drawn from the breath of life that flows from the Chotma D'Atika, from which the breath of life of Mashiach ben David will be drawn, as it is stated. [Gematria calculations:] Ba'al (Master of) 102, HaNisayon (The test) 181 = 283. Mada (Knowledge of) 114, HaMada'in (The sciences) 169 = 283. BeRuach (With a spirit of) 216, Rinah (Joyous song) 67 = 283. HaRamchal 283. HaArizal 283.
1 – Master of the World, Omnipotent One from whom no purpose can be withheld, merit me to travel to Uman every Erev Rosh Chodesh (eve of the new month), an unbreakable rule. For there is the aspect of the Holy of Holies, 'the Sanctuary, the Hall, and the Courtyards,' and there is the aspect of the Kohen Gadol (High Priest) entering the Holy of Holies while surrounded by flames of fire. Merit me that on every journey to Uman, going and returning to our holy and awesome Rebbe, I will merit to feel that I am surrounded by rivers of fire and flames of fire, on my right and on my left, before me and behind me, and upon my head the Shechinah of the Almighty, a fire burning day and night = 177. In the merit of my studying Gemara day and night = 177. And through this, through this journey of mine, may I merit the aspect of the Kohen Gadol who entered the Holy of Holies on Yom Kippur four times. May I never miss a single Erev Rosh Chodesh in my life. May I merit a private jet with which I can travel every single day to our holy and awesome Rebbe. May flames of fire surround me constantly on my journey, and as I stand at the holy and awesome Tziyon (gravesite), and as I recite The Tikkun HaKlali with awe and love, so that all my bones will say, "Who is like You among the mighty, Hashem!" Be my help that I may have a private jet to fly every single day to his holy and awesome Tziyon, and to stand there for 24 hours without moving or stirring, only with awesome awe and love, with trembling, quaking, shuddering, and shaking for the entire 24 hours. May I feel like the Kohen Gadol who entered the Holy of Holies to protect and atone for all the people of Israel. May I know that in this prayer of mine at the holy and awesome Tziyon, I am the emissary of all the people of Israel to atone for all their sins and all their iniquities, "for all the people acted in ignorance." And all the sins of all the people of Israel, the Ramban says in his epistle, are solely because they do not know the severity of the transgressions and how they cause destruction to the entire world. On this journey of mine, as I travel to the holy and awesome Tziyon, which is literally the aspect of the Holy of Holies, and I myself am in the aspect of the Kohen Gadol, as brought in 'Chochmah U'Tevunah' in the name of Rabbi Avraham ben Rabbi Nachman zt"l. The entire journey I will tremble and fear with shuddering and quaking, dread and fear, shuddering and shaking. Thus may I merit to stand the entire 24 hours at the holy and awesome Tziyon, in awesome and terrible fear and trembling. May I know faithfully that I am now the true emissary of all of Israel, in the aspect of the Kohen Gadol who atones for all their iniquities. In my merit and in the merit of my awesome prayers, may the people of Israel be forgiven for all their sins, iniquities, and intentional transgressions, for all the people acted in ignorance. I will truly not do anything else, God forbid—no shopping, no purchases, no trips, and no idle matters. I will only stand the entire 24 hours at the holy and awesome Tziyon with true awe and love, and I will truly fulfill "Pour out your heart like water before the presence of Hashem," with true awe and love. I will never again offend or cause sorrow to any person in the world. I will only ask of You with awe and love, with a torn and crushed heart shattered to pieces, that You truly atone for all my iniquities, sins, transgressions, and intentional wrongs. This will be through my reciting The Tikkun HaKlali endlessly throughout the 24 hours, each time with new awe and love, with new shuddering and shaking. Every Tikkun HaKlali will be with greater intention and greater shuddering and shaking, and every Tikkun HaKlali will be new in my eyes as if I had never recited it before. All my prayers that I will pray during those 24 hours at the holy and awesome Tziyon will be new and awesome prayers, as if I had never prayed before. May I merit to concentrate on every word and letter with new and true awe, love, shuddering, and shaking. I will not divert my mind from the letters and words at all, from the beginning of the prayer to its end. And when I am at the end of the prayer, may I merit to feel the vitality of every single letter from the beginning of the prayer to its end. May I merit to rejoice in all the humiliations they subject me to, and may I know faithfully that they are throwing precious stones and pearls at me. I will not throw them back, God forbid, but rather I will gather them with awe and love, and I will not forgo a single humiliation. I will pray to Hashem that they send even more humiliations, for if Binyamin had accepted the humiliations and blows with love, he would have received the entire Holy Temple in perfection.
1 – Master of the World, Omnipotent One from whom no purpose can be withheld, merit me [Gematria calculations:] Zakeni (Merit me) 87, Lishpoch (To pour out) 430, Libi (My heart) 42, KaMayim (Like water) 110, Lefanecha (Before You) 190. And may I merit to be the most: Hachi (The most) 35, Kadosh (Holy) 410, SheBaDor (In the generation) 512 = 1916. For You are my hope: Tikvasi (My hope) 916. And open for me the gates of: Sha'arei (The gates of) 580, HaKedushah (Holiness) 420 = 1916. May I merit to increase in prayers: Tefillos (Prayers) 916 all day. And through this, may I merit a spirit of yearning: LeRuach (To a spirit of) 244, Kisufim (Yearning) 216, Im (With) 110, Ruach (A spirit of) 214, Gevurah (Might) 216 = 1916. May I merit that the souls of Avraham 248, Avinu (Our father) 69, peace be upon him, and Moshe 351, Rabbeinu (Our teacher) 268, peace be upon him, become impregnated within me. Through this, may I merit to draw down to the world the souls of Mashiach 358, Ben (Son of) 52, Yosef 156, Mashiach 358, Ben (Son of) 52, David 14 = 1916. May they bring the complete Geulah (Redemption) and the building of the Holy Temple in the blink of an eye. Amen, Netzach, Selah, Va'ed.
1 – Master of the World, this day, the 20th of Sivan, is a holy and awesome day for the people of Israel. It is a day when the souls of Israel ascended in a storm to Heaven, a day about which the holy Zohar writes that the Resurrection of the Dead will take place. Please, Holy and Awesome One, have mercy on Your maidservant who bows before You and prostrates herself on the ground with outstretched hands and feet. For I have come to beg for mercy for all my younger years which passed in darkness, where I acted wickedly more than I acted righteously. Now I have come before You, Master of Mercy, before my marriage to a righteous, holy, and awesome husband, the likes of whose holiness and purity cannot be found in this entire generation. I know faithfully that I am not worthy of such a righteous, holy, and awesome husband, but I have trusted in Your loving-kindness and supported my pegs upon Your salvation. Help me to sanctify and purify myself in these few days remaining until the wedding. Especially and specifically in the merit of this holy and awesome day, when millions perished for the sanctification of Hashem's Name and ascended in a storm to Heaven in holiness and purity. Please, Holy and Awesome One, let my portion be with them. May I merit to be included in their holiness and purity, and may I be completely holy and pure all the days of my life, clean from any evil inclination, and from any sin or evil thought, God forbid. Please, Merciful and Gracious One, act in Your abundant and wondrous mercy, for You are Omnipotent and no purpose can be withheld from You. May I too merit to be holy and pure like the holy and pure Matriarchs: Sarah, Rivkah, Rachel, and Leah. May I merit to be like Queen Esther, who, three days after the 20th of Sivan, merited to sweeten all the decrees from upon the people of Israel. She merited to sacrifice her life for the sake of the people of Israel, saying, "And if I perish, I perish." So too, merit me from now on to sacrifice my life for Your sake, and to pray with immense devotion, a true prayer from the depths of the heart. May I merit to pray and confess over my youth which passed in darkness. From now on, may I merit to sanctify and purify myself, and to ascend the levels of holiness and purity, with each day being holier and purer than the last. May I merit to be refined with the utmost clarity and purity, until I merit the most dazzling lights, pure and bright lights. From now on, may all the days of my life be only days of ascending in holiness, days of purification and refinement. May I merit to ascend with my groom, my [future] husband, higher and higher in the levels of holiness and purity, until I merit to be purified and sanctified with the holiness of the holy Patriarchs and the holy Matriarchs. May I always remember that I am nothing but dust and ashes, and whatever I merit is only through Your mercy and Your infinite loving-kindness, which have no limit or end. Their sheer power is unfathomable, and no human mind can comprehend the greatness of Your mercy and the greatness of Your infinite loving-kindness, which reach even Your maidservant, even though I am still completely far from any trace of holiness and purity. But You, in Your abundant mercy, from whom no purpose can be withheld, can sanctify me, purify me, and make me worthy of this righteous, holy, and awesome husband that You have given me. May I merit to reach the level of the holy Matriarchs and the holy Patriarchs, and may I merit to draw down the soul of Moshe in this generation as well, to bring the complete Geulah (Redemption) to the people of Israel, speedily in our days, Amen.
1 – Master of the World, Omnipotent One from whom no purpose can be withheld, please heal in the blink of an eye the erysipelas (shoshana - rose infection) that I have on my leg, through the secret of Shoshan (Rose) = 656. May all my deeds, words, thoughts, prayers, and Torah study be in the secret of a fire offering: Isheh (Fire offering) 306, Rei'ach (Aroma of) 218, Nichoach (Pleasing) 76, LaShem (To Hashem) 56 = 656 + 1 (for the word itself) = 657. Through this, may I draw upon myself the mantle of: Aderes (Mantle of) 605, Eliyahu 52 = HaNavi (The Prophet) 657. Through this, may I merit to be included in the Ark of the Covenant, the place of the Cherubim: LaShem (To Hashem) 56, Yoshev (Who sits upon) 318, HaKeruvim (The Cherubim) 283 = 657. And by sitting all my days and studying Torah day and night in the tents of: Be'Ohalei (In the tents of) 46, Torah 611 = 657. All the days of my life, I will study Torah and pray with purity of: BeTohar (With purity of) 222, HaNefesh (The soul) 435 = 657. And in Your loving-kindness: U'VeChasdecha (And in Your loving-kindness) 100, Tagdil (You shall magnify) 447, Alai (Upon me) 110 = 657. By meriting to believe with perfect faith in the righteous of: BeTzadikei (In the righteous of) 216, Emes (Truth) 441 = 657.
1 – Master of the World, Omnipotent One from whom no purpose can be withheld, merit me to be like Avraham, Yitzchak, and Yaakov, about whom it is said: "Only in your forefathers did Hashem delight to love them, and He chose their offspring after them, even you, above all peoples, as it is this day. Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and stiffen your neck no more." Master of the World, merit me in the merit of Avraham, Yitzchak, and Yaakov to no longer stiffen my neck. May I merit a soft heart, a heart full of flashes of fire, a blazing flame of God for You, day and night without a moment's pause. May I merit to be like Avraham, Yitzchak, and Yaakov, who burned for You day and night with a holy, blazing flame without a moment's pause. May I always merit to burn for You, whether in my Torah study or in my prayer, with eternal love and true love. May the Name of Hashem (Havayah) never depart from before my eyes, day and night. May I merit to be like the holy Patriarchs, to whom You swore by the Name El Shaddai to multiply their offspring like the dust of the earth, the sand of the sea, and the stars of the heavens. May I merit that my wife will always conceive immediately, and may I merit, like Yaakov Avinu, to see six hundred thousand descendants while still in my lifetime.
2 – Master of the World, merit me that the soul of our holy Rebbe will become impregnated, and that my children and all my descendants until the end of all generations will be sparks of our holy Rebbe, and the soul of our Rebbe will literally be impregnated within them. May I merit to be like Sarah, Rivkah, Rachel, and Leah, whose candles never extinguished, whose tents were open to the wind, and whose handiwork was blessed. May I merit to be like Miriam the Prophetess, who brought the tidings of the birth of the savior of Israel; so too, may I merit to bring into the world the savior of Israel. Please, Hashem, let Your mercies be stirred for me. Hear, Hashem, my voice when I call to You, and be my help to reveal all the holy sparks hidden within me. May I be completely holy and pure, and may I merit to purify all the seven lamps in my head, which are my two eyes, my ears, my nose, and my mouth. Through this, may I merit to draw upon myself the Surrounding Lights (Oros HaMakifim), and may I merit true Ruach HaKodesh (Divine Inspiration) like Devorah the Prophetess, Queen Esther, and the rest of the prophets and prophetesses. May I merit to understand and elucidate the depths of Your secrets, receiving new Surrounding Lights each time, and a new holy understanding each time. May I merit to recognize You in this world, that You live and endure, and there is none besides You, for this is why I was created—to know and comprehend You. Help me in Your mercy to go from level to level in immense holiness and purity. May I merit truth and faith with the utmost perfection of faith, as it is written: "Come, look from the top of Amana (faith)." May I merit the perfection of the Supernal Song, which is the root of all songs—the Song of Faith, which only Moshe Rabbeinu and the True Tzaddik know. May I merit to direct all my prayers to pray according to Your good will, and to always direct every single movement and every single second to Your true will. May I merit to make the effort and gird myself with strength to truly recognize and comprehend You with a whole heart. Bestow upon my heart strengthening and effort, so that we may be strong in our minds—I and all Your people, the House of Israel—to always entreat and implore You. May I and all the kosher daughters of Israel merit to pray for all these things day and night, especially at the holy Tziyon. For You are our Father, and You desire to do good for us from Your true goodness, with all kinds of true goodness, and You constantly look forward to revealing Your true goodness to us. May I and all the House of Israel merit to make these requests day and night, every day, always. In this merit, may I merit all good influences, both materially and spiritually—children, life, and sustenance, lacking nothing, until the end of all generations, for me and all Your people, the House of Israel.
2 – Master of the World, "Set me as a seal upon Your heart, as a seal upon Your arm; for love is as strong as death, jealousy is as hard as the grave; its flashes are flashes of fire, a blazing flame of God." Please, Merciful and Gracious One, I have come to You in weeping and supplication to be engraved upon Your arm and as a crown on Your head, as it is written: "A woman of valor is the crown of her husband." May I ascend from the Sefirah of Malchus (Kingship) to the Sefirah of Ima (Mother/Understanding), and from the Sefirah of Ima to the Sefirah of Nukva D'Arich (the Feminine aspect of the Long Face/Will), and from the Sefirah of Nukva D'Arich to the Sefirah of Nukva D'Atik (the Feminine aspect of the Ancient One/Crown). May I merit to ascend from level to level until I merit to reach the root of the Sefiros, to my root in the Supreme Emanator. Please return the tender fetus conceived within me, which is the soul of an awesome and formidable Tzaddik. Please help me return this soul to its root in the Supreme Emanator, and to draw down upon the tender fetus conceived within me a completely new soul. For these months are capable of drawing down the new soul to the tender fetus conceived within me: Adar 205, Nisan 170, Iyar 221, Sivan 126 = 722. HaNeshamah (The soul) 400, HaChadashah (The new) 322 = 722. And may this new soul be the soul of Eliyahu HaNavi, remembered for good. Gematria: Eliyahu 52, HaNavi 68, Zachur (Remembered) 233, LaTov (For good) 47 = 400 = HaNeshamah (The soul). May I merit to draw down to this new soul the Mochin (intellects) from the Keser (Crown) of the Name of Ma"H [Yod-Heh-Vav-Heh spelled out with Alephs], which will unify with the Keser of the Name of Ba"N [Yod-Heh-Vav-Heh spelled out with Hehs]. May I merit to be attached all the days of my life to the Infinite One, blessed be He, and not divert my mind from the Name of Havayah (Yod-Heh-Vav-Heh) even for a single second. May I go every day to the Western Wall and merit all five Names of Eheyeh: (Exodus 3:12) "And He said, For I will be (Eheyeh) with you, and this is the sign for you that I have sent you," (3:14) "I will be what I will be (Eheyeh asher Eheyeh)... Eheyeh has sent me to you," and (4:12) "And now go, and I will be (Eheyeh) with your mouth, and I will instruct you what you shall speak." These are drawn from the five Eheyehs in Binah. May I merit the five Alephs that are drawn from the five Alephs in Binah, and through this, may I merit to extract the five Alephs that fell to the Sitra Achra (the Other Side/evil forces), from which Pharaoh's chariots receive the power to chase after the people of Israel, as it is written: "The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil." Merit me from this day onward to completely transcend all the corporeality of my body. May my body be transformed to the level of a soul, to be completely included in the soul of our holy Rebbe and in his pure body, which is holier than our souls. May I increase day by day, hour by hour, second by second, in courage and devotion to the Infinite One, blessed be He. May I merit to transcend from this day until the end of my life completely from the corporeality of my body, as the Maor VaShemesh says on Parashas Pinchas: "Let Hashem appoint a man over the congregation, who shall go out before them"—one who can transcend the corporeality of his body and strip himself of corporeality, always remaining attached to the light of the Infinite One, blessed be He, and who can bind all the souls of Israel to their root. Please, Merciful and Gracious One, Omnipotent One from whom no purpose can be withheld, merit me to be included in the soul of the True Tzaddik, who knows how to strip all of us of our bodies and include our souls in the Infinite Light, binding our souls to their root. And likewise, the soul of the fetus within me, which I have so blemished and whose soul I have corrupted. But I believe with perfect faith that by the power of the True Tzaddik, whose powers are infinite, he can extract all the arrows and furthermore transform the harsh and bitter poisons with which I poisoned the tender fetus within me into lights of infinity, to cleave to You, blessed be He. May he be born without any physical lusts, but rather be attached to You, blessed be He, all twenty-four hours, every single second, always picturing the Name of Havayah before his eyes. May he merit to be like Moshe, the Faithful Shepherd, who brought down the Torah to the people of Israel, and may he merit to be a man who does not depart from the tent, having no physical substance but only pure spirituality, and to be like Eliyahu HaNavi, remembered for good, who ascended with his body to the Garden of Eden. Please, Merciful and Gracious One, merit me to ascend from the Sefirah of Malchus in which I am situated, through all ten Sefiros up to the Sefirah of Keser. May I truly merit to be "a woman of valor, the crown of her husband," and to merit the stones of Kadkod (Ruby), which is the gematria of Chayil (Valor) [48]. May I be like Sarah, whose radiance shone throughout the land of Egypt, and illuminate all the husks (Kelipos) and all the darkness. May all the darkest corners of the world be illuminated with the Infinite Light, which I, my husband, and the fetus conceived within me will merit to draw down to the world. May we always be able to attain the clarity of the light of the Tzaddik, the light of dazzling brightness, the bright light in the heavens, who can also ascend and rectify the highest heavens like us today. May I merit from this day to pray the three daily prayers early and on time, to welcome every Shabbos early, and to be immersed in prayer. May I be "A woman of valor, who can find?" 4 + = 753. Gematria: Yom (Day of) 56, Kippurim (Atonement) 356, Mechaper (Atones) 340 + 1 = 753. Through this, may all my iniquities be atoned for in the blink of an eye, Amen.
1 – Master of the World, merit me to prepare myself to receive all the wisdoms in the world and to reveal all hidden things. Reveal to me all the secrets of the Torah of Atika Kadisha (the Holy Ancient One) and of Adam Kadmon (Primordial Man). Please, Merciful and Gracious One, Omnipotent One from whom no purpose can be withheld, in the merit of our holy Rebbe, in the merit of all the true Tzaddikim, and in the merit of Avraham, Yitzchak, and Yaakov, Sarah, Rivkah, Rachel, and Leah: merit me to toil day and night in Torah and prayer, so that I may truly merit that You reveal to me the hidden treasures of the Torah and every secret within it.
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